Solid Gold Hits - Did B-Boys Have Any Say?

[tuc70021]

Keeping on the custom anthology theme...

I grew up in a medium-sized New England city (so pretty small by the rest of the world's standards) and was living there when The Sounds of Science came out. About a year later, this one record store (I can't remember if it was a chain or a local spot) had tons of custom anthologies. This was back when you could sell CDs for a decent price to record stores... maybe you can do that still but I'm so out of it I don't even know.

Anyway, I never bought any, but it was cool to see how people put these together. You could see the real mainstream people who basically put Licensed to Ill and then all the bit hits from the other 4 albums at the time, then there were the trippy people who had a lot of instrumental and bugged out tracks, etc.

I don't know if this record store actually bought these off of individuals, but I like to think that they ordered a whole bunch of what they thought were legitimate anthologies from some shady record distributor and got stuck with a whole bunch of customized mixes.

Anyway, good times.

[dave790]

This is all great stuff! Wish I'd been around for it. I'd probably be questioning some of the track choices today. Back then I imagine I would have gone for as many rarities as possible.

[YoungRemy]

I always thought it was meant to highlight their chart topping singles hence the silly title. But it was a great AIFST preview with the "official" Brass Monkey vid coming in Fall 05 before the movie was released.

the DVD with every video made it cool, although the Criterion Video anthology (Fall 2000) had already also been released just a year after the Sounds of Silence (Fall 99) and itself showcased the alternate camera angle feature that was eventually used in AIFST

It really punctuated the O Scope era as an entirely independent music and production arm

And it spawned cool threads and discussions then and now like this one.